OW1 monetization was wildly better. While you could buy lootboxes, yes, the game was extremely generous in giving you free lootboxes, and you could easily earn

OW1 monetization was wildly better. While you could buy lootboxes, yes, the game was extremely generous in giving you free lootboxes, and you could easily earn a half dozen in an afternoon of play. That, and all content could be unlocked as a "free" player by merely playing the game which you purchased once. In contrast you'd need to spend the full purchase price of OW1 several times over just to buy the skins that aren't even available in the battlepass. Everyone I knew that actually played OW1 enjoyed blizzard's implementation of lootboxes, and afaict everyone dislikes the new monetization.